Recent Publications

Connection, isolation and reconnection: Quaternary climatic oscillations and the Andes shaped the phylogeographical patterns of the Patagonian bee Centris cineraria (Apidae)

| Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): María Sosa-Pivatto, Gonzalo A Camps, Matías C Baranzelli, Anahí Espíndola, Alicia N Sérsic, Andrea Cosacov

The Ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Sri Lanka: a taxonomic research summary and updated checklist

| ZooKeys
Author(s): Ratnayake Kaluarachchige Sriyani Dias, Benoit Guénard, Shahid Ali Akbar, Evan P. Economo, Warnakulasuriyage Sudesh Udayakantha, Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo

Socially Parasitic Ants Evolve a Mosaic of Host-Matching and Parasitic Morphological Traits

| Current Biology
Author(s): Georg Fischer, Nicholas R. Friedman, Jen-Pan Huang, Nitish Narula, L. Lacey Knowles, Brian L. Fisher, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Evan P. Economo

Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem

| Journal of Vegetation Science
Author(s): Kathryn J. Bloodworth, Mark E. Ritchie, Kimberly J. Komatsu, Zaal Kikvidze

Gully formation in headwater catchments under sugarcane agriculture in Brazil

| Journal of Environmental Management
Author(s): Maíra Ometto Bezerra, Matthew Baker, Margaret A. Palmer, Solange Filoso

Genetic variation for resistance to the specific fly pathogen Entomophthora muscae

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Jonathan B. Wang, Carolyn Elya, Raymond J. St. Leger

Influence of Landscape Factors and Abiotic Conditions on Dispersal Behavior and Overwintering Site Selection by Halyomorpha halys (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae)

| Journal of Economic Entomology
Author(s): John P Cullum, Laura J Nixon, William R Morrison, Michael J Raupp, Paula M Shrewsbury, P Dilip Venugopal, Holly Martinson, J Christopher Bergh, Tracy C Leskey

Intraspecific variation in host plant traits mediates taxonomic and functional composition of local insect herbivore communities

| Ecological Entomology

Tree diversity promotes growth of late successional species despite increasing deer damage in a restored forest

| Ecology
Author(s): John L. Devaney, Jamie Pullen, Susan C. Cook‐Patton, Karin T. Burghardt, John D. Parker

Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes

| Ecology and Evolution
Author(s): Nicholas R. Friedman, Beatrice Lecroq Bennet, Georg Fischer, Eli M. Sarnat, Jen‐Pan Huang, L. Lacey Knowles Knowles, Evan P. Economo

High-Efficiency CRISPR/Cas9 Mutagenesis of the white Gene in the Milkweed Bug Oncopeltus fasciatus

| Genetics
Author(s): Katie Reding, Leslie Pick

Going gentle into that pathogen-induced goodnight

| Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
Author(s): Brian Lovett, Raymond J. St. Leger, Henrik H. de Fine Licht

Macroinvertebrate community patterns in relation to leaf‐associated periphyton under contrasting light and nutrient conditions in headwater streams

| Freshwater Biology
Author(s): Rebecca A. Eckert, Halvor M. Halvorson, Kevin A. Kuehn, William O. Lamp

The role of organic amendments in wetland restorations

| Restoration Ecology
Author(s): Brian Scott, Andrew H. Baldwin, Kate Ballantine, Margaret Palmer, Stephanie Yarwood

Pruning of small fruit crops can affect habitat suitability for Drosophila suzukii

| Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment
Author(s): Torsten Schöneberg, Arielle Arsenault-Benoit, Christopher M. Taylor, Bryan R. Butler, Daniel T. Dalton, Vaughn M. Walton, Andrew Petran, Mary A. Rogers, Lauren M. Diepenbrock, Hannah J. Burrack, et. al

Colonize, radiate, decline: Unraveling the dynamics of island community assembly with Fijian trap‐jaw ants

| Evolution
Author(s): Cong Liu, Eli M. Sarnat, Nicholas R. Friedman, Francisco Hita Garcia, Clive Darwell, Douglas Booher, Yasuhiro Kubota, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Evan P. Economo

Genomic differentiation and intercontinental population structure of mosquito vectors Culex pipiens pipiens and Culex pipiens molestus

| Scientific Reports
Author(s): Andrey A. Yurchenko, Reem A. Masri, Natalia V. Khrabrova, Anuarbek K. Sibataev, Megan L. Fritz, Maria V. Sharakhova

Distal leg structures of the Aculeata (Hymenoptera): A comparative evolutionary study ofSceliphron(Sphecidae) andFormica(Formicidae)

| Journal of Morphology
Author(s): Rolf Georg Beutel, Adrian Richter, Roberto A. Keller, Francisco Hita Garcia, Yoko Matsumura, Evan P. Economo, Stanislav N. Gorb

Mutations in a Novel Cadherin Gene Associated with Bt Resistance in Helicoverpa zea.

| G3 (Bethesda, Md.)
Author(s): Fritz ML, Nunziata SO, Guo R, Tabashnik BE, Carrière Y

Genomic and phenomic analysis of island ant community assembly

| Molecular Ecology
Author(s): Clive T. Darwell, Georg Fischer, Eli M. Sarnat, Nicholas R. Friedman, Cong Liu, Guilherme Baiao, Alexander S. Mikheyev, Evan P. Economo

TREEasy: An automated workflow to infer gene trees, species trees, and phylogenetic networks from multilocus data

| Molecular Ecology Resources
Author(s): Yafei Mao, Siqing Hou, Junfeng Shi, Evan P. Economo

Ecological impacts of pesticide seed treatments on arthropod communities in a grain crop rotation

| Journal of Applied Ecology
Author(s): Aditi Dubey, Margaret T. Lewis, Galen P. Dively, Kelly A. Hamby

Plant reproductive strategies are not correlated with morphological or genetic diversity in specialized pollination interactions


Author(s): Maureen Murua, Anahí Espíndola, Fernanda Pérez

Assessing Field‐Scale Risks of Foliar Insecticide Applications to Monarch Butterfly (
Danaus plexippus
) Larvae

| Environmental toxicology and chemistry

Seasonal drivers of geographically isolated wetland hydrology in a low-gradient, Coastal Plain landscape

| Journal of Hydrology
Author(s): Sangchul Lee, Gregory W. McCarty, Glenn E. Moglen, Megan W. Lang, C. Nathan Jones, Margaret Palmer, In-Young Yeo, Martha Anderson, Ali M. Sadeghi, Martin C. Rabenhorst